An Android App for “testing” the Windows SMB2 vulnerability we covered last week has been released. For testing? Yeah right! The availability of this kind of software makes it ridiculously easy for anybody to go out and cause some havoc. Go right now and double check that your machines that run Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 are protected (see the “workarounds” section.)
[Thanks Tom101]
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Android app “tests” Windows vulnerability
Facebook
Non-Profits Participate In Opening Of The Facebook Gift Shop
This morning at Mashable’s Social Good Conference in New York, Facebook marketing and outreach director Randi Zuckerberg spoke about Facebook’s plan to reach out to the world of nonprofit organizations via their Gift Shop. Caroline McCarthy covered the announcement on CNET.
At the conference, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook is going to be reopening their Gift Shop to charity gifts. She said, “We are exploring ways for developers to use the Gift Shop to offer… virtual, real and charity gifts.” Before this morning, Facebook had announced their plan to open the Gift Shop to third party developers looking to make a…
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Apple Adjustable Keyboard USB hack
When [Tom] got tired of the large size of his Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 keyboard, he decided to hack a recently acquired Apple Adjustable Keyboard for use with Windows. After removing the ancient ADB based control board from the Apple keyboard, he was able to map the keys and transplant the Microsoft keyboard’s USB control board into the Apple keyboard. After soldering the control board into the keyboard with old IDE cables, all that was left was to add some diodes to prevent ghost key presses, and the keyboard hack was complete. [Tom] offers a spreadsheet of the results…
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Mud Tub: a tactile computer interface
[Tom Gerhardt] has made this very interesting mud interface for a computer. Follow the link to see a video of it in action. It appears as though he’s using a laser grid of some kind to establish elevation. We might be way off on that though, there aren’t any details on the construction. He does mention that it is an open source hardware and software project, so maybe the details are available on request. In the video you can see it running as a projection surface where people are interacting with items directly on the mud. You can also…
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An amazingly professional LED bike light
[Tom] sent us a link to this very professionally done project. He built a bike light that is a 540 lumen Luxeon light with a custom case. The LED, Lens, and driver were purchased first. Everything else was designed around it. The design is compact and good looking. You can download the CAD files on the site if you want to make your own. He is using an Atmel AVR ATTiny13 to control brightness.
Cisco Systems
Recap of my journey CCIE Security
I know most of you have heard already, but if not, I passed the CCIE Security exam in RTP on March 13th, 2009. I wanted to take a moment to recap my journey.
I have been a Cisco Instructor for 8 years now. I have been teaching the CCSP track since it’s inception, and taught various courses of the CSS-1 prior to that. Although I was a CCSP, I didn’t take the CCIE Security Written exam until March 21, 2007. I passed with an 85 on my first attempt. I used the CCBootcamp written exam guide to prepare for that,…
